Rural Digital Economy Research Hub

Abstract

There is considerable untapped economic potential in rural areas of the UK. In England alone this is estimated to be worth at least 340 million per year. Burgess (2008) gives as principal reasons for this that high levels of rural business aspiration do not find their way into practice, and that existing entrepreneurship does not fully reach its potential in wealth creation. He urges that Government recognise that key ways of realising this potential are to initiate new forms of information networks for the transfer of knowledge, the sharing of good practice, and engagement with wider markets, policy-making processes, and for the creation of larger 'masses' of expertise. By the creation of a Rural Digital Economy Hub at the University of Aberdeen we propose to take up this key challenge for policy and to employ digital technology to realise this untapped rural economic potential, through themes and projects targeted at key economic activities in the rural UK. Rural areas have specific characteristics that create particular problems for these types of activities: for example, small and often dispersed populations; narrow and uneven channels of information flow, including often relatively restricted access to digitally-based information; and rapid change in population structures and economic activity bases.Digital technology will play a major role in releasing untapped potential in the economies of rural areas in the UK. By using innovative flexible ways of 'digital working', rural businesses and communities can build on their social, economic and environmental capital to generate new wealth, employment and social opportunities. Working with communities, businesses and policy-makers on initiatives in tourism, healthcare, accessibility, conservation of natural resources, and enterprise and culture as our partners, the University of Aberdeen's Rural Digital Economy Research Hub will use our extensive expertise in information technology applications, rural economy and society, to initiate innovative projects in rural communities and businesses across the UK.We will, from the outset, incorporate and act on feedback from our partners to design and refine digital solutions to business needs. We will, with partners, evaluate our work to maximise benefits for rural economies and for the policy sectors affecting the well-being of the UK's rural areas.Rural areas of the UK can, through the user-led application of digital technology in carefully designed ways, be more economically, socially and environmentally sustainable: we will harness our expertise with rural partners to realise this ambition. ReferenceBurgess, S., 2008, England's rural areas - steps to release their economic potential. Commission for Rural Communities, Cheltenham.

This video shows the GetThere Bus smartphone app, a real-time passenger information system for rural areas that combines information from, for example, operators (e.g. timetable) and users (e.g. location). The video shows the use of GetThere Bus to select a service, view bus stops and the locations of buses on that service according to the timetable, and contribute locations which are used to provide others with real-time vehicle locations.

A presentation of selected scenarios identified during the Framework for Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT initiative case study on Personal Privacy and Web of Linked Data carried out by researchers at the dot.rural Digital Economy Hub.

From 11-23th August 2014, the collaboration of Scottish Sculpture Workshop artist Eden Jolly and master blacksmith Darrell Markewitz, with Dr. Gordon Noble, archeologist at University of Aberdeen, sought to recreate a ceremonial axe - as seen on the Rhynie Man standing stone - through smelting and forging locally sourced materials. The Rhynie Man stone is dated to roughly 700 AD, and shows a man carrying what looks to be a ceremonial axe, the type of which was used to sacrifice cattle - part of an early Pictish King's role as a religious as well as a secular leader. During the excavations carried out in 2013, a pendent depicting the axe was found, along with metal-working tongs. This find led to an initial bloomery smelt held in Rhynie last summer, and further dialogue between Scottish Scupture Workshop and the Rhynie investigations.
On the 14th of August 2014 the SIRA STREAMS Team visited the Scottish Scupture Workshop to capture video as Darrell Markewitz worked to reproduce this iron age axe. Darrell worked the forge to reproduce a replica of the Rhynie Man axe depicted on the stone. The axe itself remains a subject of much debate in the archaeological community.

Type Of Art

Film/Video/Animation

Year Produced

2014

Impact

This was used to advertise other engagement events within the SIRA STREAMS Project.

The SIRA STREAMS project held a public presentation of our experiences with the Turf to Tools project. We held an open lecture showing an iron age smelt conducted by Darrell Markewitz and the team at the SSW in August 2014. We presented video of the entire smelt process from heating the forge to final extraction. Darrell joined remotely from Canada, and answered questions together with local speakers from the Scottish Sculpture Workshop.

Type Of Art

Film/Video/Animation

Year Produced

2014

Impact

This was used to advertise other engagement events within the SIRA STREAMS Project.

Research teams within the Digital Economy Hub have developed a range of technologies to benefit rural communities across the UK and beyond. Examples include making improvements to how communities record and share their history, improvements in how people monitor their health, new ways of communicating environmental issues to the public and improvements in the way public transport users receive information in a timely manner.

Stakeholders across several areas are working with us to utilise research outcomes from the Digital Economy Hub. One spin out company has been formed: MIME Technologies.
There have been (to date) 306 publications from the grant and over 500 engagement activities with schools, industry, policy makers (at local, devolved and national levels) and the general public.

SEPA changed the way it displays river level data, notably connecting it to flood information. Our work brought out that this was exactly what the public wanted and although we will never know whether it was our research efforts that lead to this rather fundamental change, we suspect that we played a key role therein, if anything through giving the river level pages greater importance institutionally

Description

Influencing RSPB thinking

Geographic Reach

National

Policy Influence Type

Influenced training of practitioners or researchers

Description

Meet with the Scottish Government officials to Describe the trials of PAWS, and policy implications.

This is an overarching theoretical framework describing what non-academic impact is and how it is measured at dot.rural

Type Of Material

Improvements to research infrastructure

Year Produced

2013

Provided To Others?

Yes

Impact

RThe non-academic impact framework has been fundamental for the monitoring, reporting and evaluation of dot.rural projects. Besides aiding the smooth running of dot.rural projects this framework has helped guide the rationale and operationalisation of non-academic impact evidence gathering, planning and monitoring for each of the staff employed by dot.rural. The framework has also influenced some of the thinking behind the last evaluation of national impact, as per the National Digital Economy Impact Survey 2015

Provided a means of assessing the perceived effectiveness of persuasive strategies for encouraging social interaction

Title

AT Computer Model

Description

We developed a two-agent dialogue system to evaluate our model of argumentation schemes for deliberating about interdependent plans. The system is composed of a planning module responsible for preparing and updating plans, an argumentation module to generate arguments according to the opponent's moves and the existing conflicts, and a dialogue module to select the moves and elaborate the incoming moves according to the communication protocol.

Type Of Material

Computer model/algorithm

Provided To Others?

No

Impact

Publication of results in ECAI 2012, the ArgMAS 2014 workshop, and in the PhD thesis

Title

CURIOS Mobile

Description

Restful API for pulling data from a semantically linked archive to a mobile device

Type Of Material

Computer model/algorithm

Provided To Others?

No

Impact

None directly due to model, but integral part of the CURIOSMobile project.

Reports of demand for the TumTums (institutional bus service) at the Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai as reported by users during the first deployment of the IITB-Life system during the CrowdData project.

Type Of Material

Database/Collection of data

Provided To Others?

No

Impact

None yet known

Title

CrowdData IITB Life TumTum Demand Deployment 2

Description

Reports of demand for the TumTums (institutional bus service) at the Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai as reported by users during the second deployment of the IITB-Life system during the CrowdData project.

Type Of Material

Database/Collection of data

Provided To Others?

No

Impact

None yet known

Title

CrowdData IITB Life TumTum Events Deployment 1

Description

Reports of events happening at the Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai as reported by users during the first deployment of the IITB-Life system during the CrowdData project.

Type Of Material

Database/Collection of data

Provided To Others?

No

Impact

None yet known

Title

CrowdData IITB Life TumTum Events Deployment 2

Description

Reports of events happening at the Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai as reported by users during the second deployment of the IITB-Life system during the CrowdData project.

Type Of Material

Database/Collection of data

Provided To Others?

No

Impact

None yet known

Title

CrowdData IITB Life TumTum Feedback Deployment 1

Description

Feedback reports provided by users during the first deployment of the IITB-Life system during the CrowdData project.

Type Of Material

Database/Collection of data

Provided To Others?

No

Impact

None yet known

Title

CrowdData IITB Life TumTum Feedback Deployment 2

Description

Feedback reports provided by users during the second deployment of the IITB-Life system during the CrowdData project.

Type Of Material

Database/Collection of data

Provided To Others?

No

Impact

None yet known

Title

CrowdData IITB Life TumTum Incidents Deployment 1

Description

Reports of incidents at the Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai as reported by users during the first deployment of the IITB-Life system during the CrowdData project.

Type Of Material

Database/Collection of data

Provided To Others?

No

Impact

None yet known

Title

CrowdData IITB Life TumTum Incidents Deployment 2

Description

Reports of incidents at the Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai as reported by users during the second deployment of the IITB-Life system during the CrowdData project.

Type Of Material

Database/Collection of data

Provided To Others?

No

Impact

None yet known

Title

CrowdData IITB Life TumTum Questions and Answers Deployment 1

Description

Questions asked by and answers provided by users during the first deployment of the IITB-Life system during the CrowdData project.

Type Of Material

Database/Collection of data

Provided To Others?

No

Impact

None yet known

Title

CrowdData IITB Life TumTum Questions and Answers Deployment 2

Description

Questions asked by and answers provided by users during the second deployment of the IITB-Life system during the CrowdData project.

Type Of Material

Database/Collection of data

Provided To Others?

No

Impact

None yet known

Title

CrowdData IITB Life TumTum Users Deployment 1

Description

Details of registered users during the second deployment of the IITB-Life system during the CrowdData project.

Type Of Material

Database/Collection of data

Provided To Others?

No

Impact

None yet known

Title

Curios - Hebridean Connections Data

Description

Linked Data set developed with Hebridean Connections during the Curios Project. The database holds information on the cultural heritage of the outer Hebrides gathered by volunteers.
Interviews 1 - Interviews with Hebridean Connection volunteers conducted as part of the curios project. 10/06/2011
Interviews 2 - Interviews with Hebridean Connection volunteers conducted as part of the curios project. 09/11/2012

Data Bundle for Models of argument for deliberative Dialogue in Complex Domains

Description

This data bundle contains all the data that were used in Toniolo's PhD Thesis, with title "Models of argument for deliberative Dialogue in Complex Domains". In this research, we defined and empirically evaluated a model of deliberation dialogue based upon argumentation schemes for agents with different objectives to decide what to do in collaboration.
The three main folders correspond to the data used for analysis in Chapter 5 (Identifying effective plans through dialogue), Chapter 6a (Strategies driven by plan feasibility) and Chapter 6b (Strategies driven by conflict importance) respectively. Each folder contains files with data resulting from the experiments in csv format, and a file graphAnalysisChX.rtf that contains R scripts for generating the graphs for analysis as presented in the thesis.

Dataset for "How can skin check reminders be personalized to patient conscientiousness"

Description

Anonymised data from this PATH 2015 workshop paper. This paper explores the potential of personalising health reminders to melanoma patients based on their personality (high vs low conscientiousness). We describe a study where we presented participants with a scenario with a fictional patient who has not performed a skin check for recurrent melanoma. The patient was described as either very conscientious, or very unconscientious. We asked participants to rate reminders inspired by Cialdini's 6 principles of persuasion for their suitability for the patient. Participants then chose their favourite reminder and an alternative reminder to send if that one failed. We found that conscientiousness had an effect on both the ratings of reminder types and the most preferred reminders selected by participants.

The FITS visualisation tool has been trialled offline with transport operator data for the North-West Aberdeenshire and Morayshire area as well as a set of passenger trip demands. A simulated demand generator was used to produce a set of passenger demands to reflect potential daily health-related trip demands. The generation of the trips is based on annual outpatient appointment data from each of nine districts (electoral wards) to and from five hospitals in the North-West Aberdeenshire and Morayshire area.

Map-matching (MM) algorithms integrate location data (i.e., latitude and longitude) obtained from positioning sensors (in this case, mobile GPS) with a digital geographic information system (GIS) road map. Any map-matching algorithm first identifies the road link on which a vehicle is traveling and then determines the vehicle's location on that road segment. In this new map matching algorithm, at a given point of time, a number of vehicle locations (latitude and longitude) are received from passengers traveling on a bus. In order to provide a precise vehicle location at a given point of time, a novel map-matching algorithm using fuzzy logic, which integrates multiple vehicle locations (obtained from passenger's smart phones) with a GIS road map, has been developed. The developed map-matching algorithm was tested using real-world data collected on four different bus routes in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and also GPS data collected in and around Nottingham, United Kingdom. It was identified that the developed MM algorithm is efficient and capable of supporting the proposed passenger information system.

Type Of Material

Computer model/algorithm

Provided To Others?

No

Impact

None yet known

Title

MinTad

Description

A prototype system for intention mining from social media, which can be applied for business intelligence applications.

MinkApp System - A website developed for the Scottish Mink Initiative during the MinkApp Project an exciting nature conservation initiative working across northern Scotland. Scottish Mink Initiative is a community based initiative aiming to protect native wildlife by removing breeding American mink from northern Scotland and the Highlands.
MinkApp Interviews - Interviews conducted with volunteers of the Scottish Mink Initiative during the MinkApp Project about their use of the MinkApp system. 17/07/2014 - Scotland - Tayside and North
MinkApp Focus Group - Focus group conducted with Fishery Trusts and the Scottish Mink Initiative during the MinkApp Project. 05/06/2014 - Scotland - Tayside and North
MinkApp Data - Database developed with Scottish Mink Initiative during the MinkApp Project. The database holds information on the removal of American Mink from Scotland and Volunteer personal information. 2011-2014 - Scotland - Tayside and North
MinkApp Usability Study - Interviews and usability study conducted with the Mink Control Officers of the Scottish Mink Initiative during the MinkApp Project. 12/09/2013 Scotland

1. System: Code developed during the Powkist project to visualize linked data content in a timeline
2. Data: Prisoner Of War Kist data created during the project about Allan Houston's experience in ww1 1920-1980
3. Workshops: 4 workshops conducted with local history societies during the course of the Powkist project (22/11/2014)

Link to a repository for the code developed by project RemoteStream
The project will develop a remote monitoring platform providing web access to live data from remote locations. The system comprises two components: a remote capture platform and a web-based content portal.

This dataset was provided by SEPA for our dot.rural partnership project IADES.
The data include river level measurements collected from several SEPA gauging stations on River Dee (Aberdeenshire).
The river levels were measured every 15 minutes during the period of 2010 to 2013.
The metadata for each record is as follows:
timestamp value
In the above "timestamp" indicates when the river level was measured and "value" is the actual measurement.
This dataset is owned by SEPA and subject to the SEPA data sharing agreement. Permission must be sought from SEPA in order to access the dataset.
As per the conditions set out in SEPA's data reuse statement:
https://www.sepa.org.uk/media/148384/sepa_general_data_reuse_statement.pdf

Details of the road network in the Scottish Borders area of the UK, formatted using Resource Description Framework (RDF) stored in a Jena TDB dataset (see http://jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/). Data format is based on the OpenStreetMap (http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=5/51.500/-0.100) representation of ways as a series of nodes.

Timetable information for eight bus routes in the Scottish Borders, operated by First South East and Central Scotland. Data is formatted as Resource Description Framework (RDF) and stored in a Jena TDB dataset (see http://jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/ for details of how to load and access the data).

Total skin self-examination at home for people treated for cutaneous melanoma

Description

1. Recordings of interviews with people affected by melanoma to ascertain views on the role of technology in their follow-up.
2. Transcripts of interviews with people affected by melanoma to ascertain views on the role of technology in their follow-up
3. Report of Forres Experience Prototype Lab - May 2013
4. Questionnaire data from participants in ASICA pilot study.
5. Interviews tapes conducted with participants in the ASICA study.
6. Transcript of interviews conducted with participants in the ASICA study

1. Trusted Tiny Things Android app version one: This application was developed and used as a part of Trusted Tiny Things project for bus stop case study. (1/9/2013 - 1/9/2014) Data Available 19/01/2014.
2. Android App Implementation v2: This application was developed and used as a part of Trusted Tiny Things project. This version of the app was used for "blackbox" scenario use case. (1/9/2013 - 1/9/2014) Data Available 09/06/2014.
3. Server Implementation (Bus Stop Case): The repository contains first version of server implementation for bus stop case scenario investigated as a part of Trusted Tiny Things project. (1/9/2013 - 1/9/2014) Data Available 06/11/2014.
4. Server Implementation (BlackBox Experiment): Second version of the T3 server to be used with second version of the Trusted Tiny Things App. (1/9/2013 - 1/9/2014) Data Available 13/06/2014.
5. SimmBox Simulation blackbox tracker app: Simulated telemetry box android app developed and used as part of Trusted Tiny Things project. (1/9/2013 - 1/9/2014) Data Available 30/05/2014.
6. Insurance Simulation Service Implementation: This insurance service implementation collects data from the Simbbox app (telemetry box) Also sends data to the T3 framework server and communicatates with Car Manufacturer Simulation Service (1/9/2013 - 1/9/2014) Data Available 30/05/2014.
7. Manufacturer Service implementation: Simple Third party company service receiving and sending new personal data and generated provenance to insurance company. (1/9/2013 - 1/9/2014) Data Available 12/10/2014.

This dataset contains data used to evaluate how T3 system and app performs under different set of conditions.
Stats for Study 3 zip file is composed of several folders and subfolders where each represent a condition under which the T3 system was running. Each folder includes a README.txt file to explain what data are represented in the files contained withing the folder.
The dataset also contains a Summary of the evaluation. For information about methodology and elaborated results please refer to the associated paper.

his dataset contains all data used to evaluate android mobile app and Trusted Tiny Things framework.
This bundle contains:
Questionnaire provided for participants
Information sheet and consent form provided for participants
Summary of the questionnaires in PDF and Excel format
Analysis of the study
Anonymised RDF dump
Mysql Dump of participant's interaction with the Trusted Tiny Things system.
Methodology and results are described in the associated publication.

Development of a destination-based disaggregate multi-modal accessibility mapping tool which includes liftshare options (named AMIL). The AMIL tool is novel and innovative in two ways: 1) it is the first time that liftshare options have been incorporated in accessibility mapping; 2) it is the first time that detailed data from thousands of individual journey planning results across an entire area have been linked together to provide area-wide accessibility maps which take account of generalised costs rather than just travel times.

Collaborator Contribution

Provision of data from their MyPTP software and access to their database of liftshare client (passenger) journey data and requests. Internal testing of AMIL tool which was developed. Testing of AMIL tool with their commercial clients (employment sites / Local authorities).

Analysis of transport and health data (using FITS tool and simulated demand generator) to provide future community transport service designs for accessing proposed new hospital in Aviemore.

Collaborator Contribution

Provision of service data and operational knowledge

Impact

The main output has been the report "Service Review and Design Recommendations for Badenoch & Strathspey Community Transport Company (BSCTC)". This has been submitted to BSCTC who have since shared it with NHS Highland and Highland Council. The recommendations are being considered by the Transport and Access Group (TAG) for the new hospital in Aviemore.

JP Vargheese (PhD researcher) worked with Bridge House raising awareness of research agenda within the HCI community in regards to assistive living technology to support independent living for older adults.

Collaborator Contribution

Details of persuasive strategies used by staff for encouraging older adults to participate in social activities, current practice and policy for the provision of social activities for older adults, information recorded in relation to admision and care of older adults in the home.

Mobile app - https://github.com/hhainguyen/CURIOSMobile
1. Roll in helping Hebridean Connections plan for the future through gaining more funding. 2. Roll in better promoting Hebridean Connections across the Outer Hebrides, particularly in the Uists. 3. Ability to show that even in really low connectivity areas, mobile technology and linked data can still be utilised.

Start Year

2013

Description

Collaboration with Camvista Global ltd in RemoteStream

Organisation

Camvista Global Ltd

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Private

PI Contribution

The RemoteStream team utilised experience in dot.rural to develop a platform for remote monitoring / video streaming from isolated locations. WE interacted with Camvista Global Ltd to deploy a prototype monitoring system to demonstrate the concept and support dissemination.
Our team experience in signal processing complemented Camvista's expertise into streaming methods applicable to mobile handheld devices and integration with social network tools.

Collaborator Contribution

The project RemoteStream was based on extensive collaboration with Camvista, based in Kirkcaldy, the UK's leading web cam portal website, with research and development expertise in live webcam streaming from web sites in the UK and beyond.
Camvista has shared experience of using H.264 cameras to develop applications for live Internet video streaming. They have also provided a software platform for server hosting (content portal) used as proof-of-concept monitoring platform (with integrated cameras) developed at test facilities at University of Aberdeen (UoA).

Impact

RemoteStream Publications output (listed in this database).
Further collaboration with NetworkRail (listed in this database).

Start Year

2014

Description

Collaboration with HTAP

Organisation

NHS Grampian

Department

Health and Transport Action Plan (HTAP)

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Public

PI Contribution

In consultation with HTAP partners, we have developed the FITS online tool that searches both public and flexible transport options which could be used directly by passengers to health appointments or by a representative performing the search on their behalf. We have also developed the FITS planning simulator which can be used to identify more efficient and effective solutions to providing transport to health in rural areas.

Collaborator Contribution

"NHS Grampian and Scottish Ambulance Service have provided data on hospital appointments and transport to health needs. Aberdeenshire County Council and community transport providers have provided service information data and operational inputs. A workshop on flexible integrated transport systems was held on 16th Aug 2012 in collaboration with HTAP team. HTAP partners have also attended FITS project meetings and demo's.
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Impact

The FITS-KE project is currently working on deploying the FITS tool at the THInC centre in Aberdeenshire County Council. The collaboration is multi disciplinary between transport, health and computing/IT.

Start Year

2011

Description

Collaboration with Hebridean Connections Ltd

Organisation

Hebridean Connections

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Charity/Non Profit

PI Contribution

The project is collaborating with Hebridean Connections Ltd and, as part of the work involved, we are reimplementing a new version of the HC website based on open linked data.

Start Year

2011

Description

Collaboration with Network Rail in RemoteStream

Organisation

Network Rail Ltd

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Private

PI Contribution

One of the aims of the RemoteStream project was to showcase the prototype platform produced by the project to transport stakeholders. In this context, we have approached Network Rail's Senior Strategy and Innovation Engineer (Datacomms & Applications) to construct case-studies to assess the performance of the proposed system to address challenges of monitoring remote infrastructure or assets.

Collaborator Contribution

During the course of the RemoteStream project, Network Rail has become the major source of transport stakeholder test cases. Network Rail has also funded trial of an initial prototype system over summer 2015.

Impact

A Stakeholder meeting took place in October at Network Rail HQ .
Further collaboration is envisaged and funding applications with an active contribution from Network Rail are bing considered.

Start Year

2015

Description

Collaboration with Portsoy volunteers

Organisation

Portsoy Salmon Bothy Volunteers

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Public

PI Contribution

The CURIOS project collaborated with a set of volunteers from the Portsoy local community, based at the Portsoy Salmon Bothy. We established their data representation needs and set up a system for them to edit some initial data, based on some material derived automatically from census data. We then created a website based on this using the CURIOS software. The case study allowed us to study the dynamics of a second group of local historians and also to inform the Portsoy community of the potential of digital innovation.

Start Year

2012

Description

Collaboration with Scottish Sculpture Workshop

Organisation

Scottish Sculpture Workshop

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Charity/Non Profit

PI Contribution

Through working with Nuno Sacremento, the Director of Scottish Sculpture Workshop, as a case study on the project I have been invited to board membership and am writing collaborative funding bids with the organisation.
This collaboration has enabled us to develop new project ideas which are being developed as funding proposals.

Start Year

2013

Description

CornCCoB - British Telecom

Organisation

BT Group

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Private

PI Contribution

Research interviews

Collaborator Contribution

Facilitating research interviews

Impact

Sociologia Ruralis paper.

Start Year

2013

Description

CornCCoB - Falmouth University

Organisation

Falmouth University

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Academic/University

PI Contribution

Collaborative research project

Collaborator Contribution

Access to partners and participants

Impact

Sociologia Ruralis paper

Start Year

2013

Description

CornCCoB - Superfast Cornwall

Organisation

Superfast Cornwall

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Public

PI Contribution

Research project collaboration

Collaborator Contribution

Research project collaboration

Impact

Sociologia Ruralis paper

Start Year

2013

Description

CrowdData - Using the Crowd to Create and Maintain Useful Public Transport Data Assets in India

Organisation

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Country

India

Sector

Academic/University

PI Contribution

Development of the IIT-B Life software; support for software deployments; literature review of open data publishing methodologies, provenance requirements, and open data in UK and India.

Collaborator Contribution

Literature review of smart cities in India; Employment of programmer to support development of the IITB-Life system; support was also provided by PhD student; organisation of site visits and meetings with users groups; organised and performed co-design activities with user groups and software deployments and evaluations.

The partner provided access to the group of craftspeople, publicised workshops, and provided access to venue space. The partner provided expertise in developing the sub-project proposal and the aims of the project.

Support in developing the project idea, access to the participant group, publicity of the project workshops and access to the community room

Impact

Interdisciplinary: sociology, design ethnography, arts development

Start Year

2015

Description

Digital Crafters Talk About Local

Organisation

Talk About Local

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Charity/Non Profit

PI Contribution

Employment of services, new insights into digital engagement for a specific group (arts sector)

Collaborator Contribution

Training in the use of Wordpress in designing websites and blogs

Impact

Interdisciplinary: sociology, design ethnography, arts development

Start Year

2015

Description

Earthwatch

Organisation

Earthwatch Institute

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Charity/Non Profit

PI Contribution

Developed with Earthwatch a PhD project "Being good neighbours - Understanding the social dimensions of wildlife-friendly gardening and its impact on urban wildlife", half of which is funded by Earthwatch (and the other half by Aberdeen University)

Collaborator Contribution

Developed with Earthwatch a PhD project "Being good neighbours - Understanding the social dimensions of wildlife-friendly gardening and its impact on urban wildlife", half of which is funded by Earthwatch (and the other half by Aberdeen University)

Impact

in progress

Start Year

2018

Description

FITS KE

Organisation

NHS Grampian

Department

NHS Grampian Health & Transport Action Plan group

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Public

PI Contribution

In consultation with HTAP partners, we have developed the FITS online tool that searches both public and flexible transport options which could be used directly by passengers to health appointments or by a representative performing the search on their behalf. We have also developed the FITS planning simulator which can be used to identify more efficient and effective solutions to providing transport to health in rural areas.

Collaborator Contribution

NHS Grampian and Scottish Ambulance Service have provided data on hospital appointments and transport to health needs. Aberdeenshire County Council and community transport providers have provided service information data and operational inputs. A workshop on flexible integrated transport systems was held on 16th Aug 2012 in collaboration with HTAP team. HTAP partners have also attended FITS project meetings and demo's.

Impact

The FITS-KE project is currently working on deploying the FITS tool at the THInC centre in Aberdeenshire County Council. The collaboration is multi disciplinary between transport, health and computing/IT.

JP Vargheese (PhD researcher) worked at the home raising awareness of research agenda within the HCI community in regards to assistive living technology to support independent living for older adults.

Collaborator Contribution

Details of persuasive strategies used by staff for encouraging older adults to participate in social activities, current practice and policy for the provision of social activities for older adults, information recorded in relation to admision and care of older adults in the home

Keeping the Red Cross abreast of technology developments at national and local level - particularly important as they are in the process of procuring tablet technology + apps to run on it. MIME fits in perfectly with their digital strategy

Collaborator Contribution

Information regarding how pre-hospital care operates, from the perspective of Red Cross volunteers and their managers

Impact

Has resulted in securing an additional evaluation

Start Year

2015

Description

MIME end-user group collaboration (3)

Organisation

British Association for Immediate Care Scotland

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Multiple

PI Contribution

Keeping BASICS up-to-speed with technical developments in the pre-hospital field

Collaborator Contribution

Keeping BASICS up-to-speed with technical developments in the pre-hospital field

Red kite breeding data (£150 fee waivered) data from 31 satellite tags at £3000 a piece, staff time of red kite project officers of about 8 days at £400 a day

Impact

none

Start Year

2012

Description

RuraPAWS -Avanti Communications

Organisation

Avanti Consulting

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Private

PI Contribution

Satellite broadband provision for 12 months

Collaborator Contribution

Satellite terminal installations

Impact

Journal publications have arisen from our insights from these partners (see 'Publications)

Start Year

2014

Description

Rural Internet Forum - Communications Chambers

Organisation

Communication Chambers

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Public

PI Contribution

Contributed to an informed and evidence-based discussion

Collaborator Contribution

Contributed to an informed and evidence-based discussion

Impact

12-page circulated summary document (internal use only), overall discussion contributed to the motivation for an extended partnership between dot.rural and the Oxford Internet Institute to generate more robust and specific data about rural Internet use.

Start Year

2012

Description

Rural Internet Forum - Cornwall Development Company

Organisation

Cornwall Development Company

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Private

PI Contribution

Contributed to an informed and evidence-based discussion

Collaborator Contribution

Contributed to an informed and evidence-based discussion

Impact

12-page circulated summary document (internal use only), overall discussion contributed to the motivation for an extended partnership between dot.rural and the Oxford Internet Institute to generate more robust and specific data about rural Internet use.

Start Year

2012

Description

Rural Internet Forum - OFCOM

Organisation

Ofcom

Department

Office of Communications (Ofcom) - Research Department

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Public

PI Contribution

Contributed to an informed and evidence-based discussion

Collaborator Contribution

Contributed to an informed and evidence-based discussion

Impact

12-page circulated summary document (internal use only), overall discussion contributed to the motivation for an extended partnership between dot.rural and the Oxford Internet Institute to generate more robust and specific data about rural Internet use.

Start Year

2012

Description

Rural Internet Forum - Ofcom (2)

Organisation

Ofcom

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Charity/Non Profit

PI Contribution

Contributed to an informed and evidence-based discussion

Collaborator Contribution

Contributed to an informed and evidence-based discussion

Impact

12-page circulated summary document (internal use only), overall discussion contributed to the motivation for an extended partnership between dot.rural and the Oxford Internet Institute to generate more robust and specific data about rural Internet use.

Start Year

2012

Description

Rural Internet Forum - Oxford Internet Institute

Organisation

University of Oxford

Department

Oxford Internet Institute

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Academic/University

PI Contribution

Contributed to an informed and evidence-based discussion

Collaborator Contribution

Contributed to an informed and evidence-based discussion

Impact

12-page circulated summary document (internal use only), overall discussion contributed to the motivation for an extended partnership between dot.rural and the Oxford Internet Institute to generate more robust and specific data about rural Internet use.

Start Year

2012

Description

Rural Internet Forum - Rutland Telecom

Organisation

Rutland Telecom

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Private

PI Contribution

Contributed to an informed and evidence-based discussion

Collaborator Contribution

Contributed to an informed and evidence-based discussion

Impact

12-page circulated summary document (internal use only), overall discussion contributed to the motivation for an extended partnership between dot.rural and the Oxford Internet Institute to generate more robust and specific data about rural Internet use.

12-page circulated summary document (internal use only), overall discussion contributed to the motivation for an extended partnership between dot.rural and the Oxford Internet Institute to generate more robust and specific data about rural Internet use.

Start Year

2012

Description

Rural Internet Forum - University of Leicester

Organisation

University of Leicester

Department

Department of Media and Communication

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Academic/University

PI Contribution

Contributed to an informed and evidence-based discussion

Collaborator Contribution

Contributed to an informed and evidence-based discussion

Impact

12-page circulated summary document (internal use only), overall discussion contributed to the motivation for an extended partnership between dot.rural and the Oxford Internet Institute to generate more robust and specific data about rural Internet use.

Start Year

2012

Description

Rural Internet Forum - University of Wales, Newport

Organisation

University of Wales

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Academic/University

PI Contribution

Contributed to an informed and evidence-based discussion

Collaborator Contribution

Contributed to an informed and evidence-based discussion

Impact

12-page circulated summary document (internal use only), overall discussion contributed to the motivation for an extended partnership between dot.rural and the Oxford Internet Institute to generate more robust and specific data about rural Internet use.

Start Year

2012

Description

Rural Internet Forum BroadEdged Consultants

Organisation

BroadEdged Consultants

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Private

PI Contribution

Contributed to an informed and evidence-based discussion

Collaborator Contribution

Contributed to an informed and evidence-based discussion

Impact

12-page circulated summary document (internal use only), overall discussion contributed to the motivation for an extended partnership between dot.rural and the Oxford Internet Institute to generate more robust and specific data about rural Internet use.12-page circulated summary document (internal use only), overall discussion contributed to the motivation for an extended partnership between dot.rural and the Oxford Internet Institute to generate more robust and specific data about rural Internet use.

12-page circulated summary document (internal use only), overall discussion contributed to the motivation for an extended partnership between dot.rural and the Oxford Internet Institute to generate more robust and specific data about rural Internet use.

Start Year

2012

Description

Rural Internet Forum University College Falmouth

Organisation

Falmouth University

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Academic/University

PI Contribution

Contributed to an informed and evidence-based discussion

Collaborator Contribution

Contributed to an informed and evidence-based discussion

Impact

12-page circulated summary document (internal use only), overall discussion contributed to the motivation for an extended partnership between dot.rural and the Oxford Internet Institute to generate more robust and specific data about rural Internet use.

Start Year

2012

Description

Rural Internet Forum University of Edinburgh

Organisation

University of Edinburgh

Department

School of Informatics Edinburgh

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Academic/University

PI Contribution

Contributed to an informed and evidence-based discussion

Collaborator Contribution

Contributed to an informed and evidence-based discussion

Impact

12-page circulated summary document (internal use only), overall discussion contributed to the motivation for an extended partnership between dot.rural and the Oxford Internet Institute to generate more robust and specific data about rural Internet use.

Start Year

2012

Description

SEWeb Academic Research Search Tool

Organisation

Scottish Environment Protection Agency

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Charity/Non Profit

PI Contribution

To develop a modular system that can be extended to integrate additional interfaces and sources of research data and information, over and above the PURE systems. This will future proof the SEWeb system to easily accommodate any future changes to how research councils publish information and data.

Collaborator Contribution

access to systems, expertise, liaison to HEI, user testing, advice

Impact

Improved search tool involving ecology and computing science.

Start Year

2014

Description

SSW

Organisation

Scottish Sculpture Workshop

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Charity/Non Profit

PI Contribution

Satellite broadband provision for 18 months

Collaborator Contribution

Time (being interviewed)

Impact

Journal publications have arisen from our insights from these partners (see 'Publications)

Start Year

2013

Description

Sarah Schiffling Internship

Organisation

Heriot-Watt University

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Academic/University

PI Contribution

During the summer of 2013, Sarah Schiffling from Heriot-Watt University was awarded a dot.rural internship working with the SMiLE project.

Start Year

2013

Description

Scottish Borders College

Organisation

Borders College

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Academic/University

PI Contribution

Scottish Borders College is a further education institution in the Scottish Borders; its main campus is located in Galashiels. They worked with dot.rural as a partner on the Informed Rural Passenger project. The Scottish Borders College have provided access to people (transport administrator (Susan Williams), publications and marketing manager (Cameron Reith), head of student services (Clare Nairn); provided facilities for focus groups, interviews, participant recruitment; supported participant recruitment (emails, social media).

Chris Horrill, director of SMI, invested heavily in the development of the Minkapp web platform, personally and through dedicating several of his members of staff to work with us closely. This allowed us to genuinely co-develop the data submission and feedback system.

Impact

Minkapp data submission and feedback portal;

Start Year

2011

Description

Semetric Ltd (UK)

Organisation

Semetric Ltd

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Private

PI Contribution

Part of collaborative project team.

Collaborator Contribution

In-kind contribution including data and staff investigation time.

Impact

A system prototype has been developed which is up and running in the university server (http://sentinet.abdn.ac.uk/mintad/).

Start Year

2014

Description

Storytelling Lumsden - SSW

Organisation

Scottish Water

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Public

PI Contribution

We will providing digital engagement activities, a community website, and training. d

Collaborator Contribution

Development of project idea, publicity and access to venues

Impact

Website for the community

Start Year

2015

Description

Storytelling Lumsden LCA

Organisation

Lumsden Community Association

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Academic/University

PI Contribution

We provided digital engagement activities, a community website, and training for LCA in maintaining the site

Collaborator Contribution

Access to a community group, development of project idea, publicity and access to venues

Impact

Website for the community

Start Year

2015

Description

Student Association, Heriot Watt University

Organisation

Heriot-Watt University

Department

Student Association

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Charity/Non Profit

PI Contribution

Collaborated with the Student Association of Heriot Watt University to conduct a study in the Borders College. The SA of Heriot Watt University provided us with facilities and helped us to recruit students to conduct a travel behaviour study in the Borders area.

Start Year

2013

Description

Student Internship: Paul Gault, Dundee

Organisation

University of Dundee

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Academic/University

PI Contribution

During the summer of 2013, Paul Gault, University of Dundee, was awarded a dot.rural internship working with the Informed Rural Passenger project. PhD student internship.

Liaised with emergency services through BMCE Networks and Gaist to inform direction of research and provide realistic use cases. Partners provided platform to enable deployment/evaluation of technology.

Impact

Series of publications and Multipath Dissemination Protocol Daemon - items are listed elsewhere in researchFish.

University of Aberdeen (in collaboration with Heriot-Watt University) are co-ordinating the University Partner Programme activities, these involve workshops, events, public engagement, secondments and other join activities.

Collaborator Contribution

The TSC provide speakers and facilities along with promoting events. They have been partners in several grant applications.

Journal publications have arisen from our insights from these partners (see 'Publications)

Start Year

2013

Description

Tin Hut

Organisation

TheraKIND

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Private

PI Contribution

Satellite broadband provision for 18 months

Collaborator Contribution

Time (being interviewed)

Impact

Journal publications have arisen from our insights from these partners (see 'Publications)

Start Year

2013

Description

Trusted Tiny Things project - Aberdeenshire Council

Organisation

Aberdeenshire Council

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Public

PI Contribution

Deployed the trusted tiny things system to bus stop infrastructure in Aberdeen city and Aberdeenshire (2300 bus stops).

Collaborator Contribution

The partner gave us access to but timetable infrastructure and used the project logo in 2300 bus stops in their network. Partner also offered £390 in travel vouchers for recruiting participants for our studies.

Impact

Deployment of the system with Aberdeen city and Aberdeenshire bus timetable infrastructure

Start Year

2013

Description

University of Lancaster - DART

Organisation

Lancaster University

Department

School of Computing and Communications

Country

United Kingdom

Sector

Academic/University

PI Contribution

Partner in TSC funded Project

Collaborator Contribution

Project partner in DART team

Impact

Project publications, joint presentations, co-organised a workshop at DE 2012, and continued collaboration on related research topics

Start Year

2011

Description

Uniweibo Ltd (China)

Organisation

Uniweibo Ltd

Country

China

Sector

Private

PI Contribution

Part of a collaborative project team.

Collaborator Contribution

In-kind contribution including data and staff investigation time.

Impact

A system protatype has been developed which is up and running in the university server (http://sentinet.abdn.ac.uk/mintad/).

Start Year

2014

Description

WoodWorks - Falkland

Organisation

Ruhr University Bochum

Department

Faculty of Mathematics

Country

Germany

Sector

Academic/University

PI Contribution

Co-design workshop with young people,

Collaborator Contribution

Provision of woodland resource and hosting of workshops. Assistance in securing further external funding.

The FITS Platform is a passenger-centric virtual marketplace that considers the eligibility criteria of transport providers, vehicle availability, and passengers' requirements and preferences in identifying possible transport options.

Type Of Technology

Webtool/Application

Year Produced

2015

Impact

None yet known

Title

Food Traceability - Seb Service API

Description

RESTful API providing methods to store and retrevie information bout Object Memoried. This is designed to provide back-end support for all of the SMiLE food traceability applications

Website for the GetThere smartphone app developed during the Informed Rural Passenger project. The website provides details about the app, help, FAQ, the app Terms and Conditions, and press release materials. The website is available at http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/getthere/

Kernel pacthes and tools for installing new transport mechanisms in TCP/IP Stack

Description

Source Code for RFC 7661 mechanisms has been placed in the public domain as contributions to the Linux 3.8.2 and BSD developer communities, and is available from these communities. A kernel loadable module for Linux is available

POWkist is an open-source digital archive, which can not only preserve the archive sustainably but also visualise it in an attractive and efficient way. POWkist will build upon the expertise, methodologies, use cases, and open-source software developed during the CURIOS and CURIOS Mobile project in dot.rural.

This is a java jar file that takes an English sentence as input and outputs its intention type of 'purchase', 'inform' or 'other'. For purchase intention, the agent and object are also analysed. License: CC BY 4.0

The Transport Disruption ontology is a formal framework for modelling events related to travel and transport that may disrupt the travel plans of an agent. Such events typically disrupt the supply or cost of transport, can affect single or multiple transport links in an area, and cause greater disruption to an agent's travel plans than they would typically experience due to everyday travel variability.

The core components of the ecosystem developed for the Informed Rural Passenger project. This library provides compoents and APIs for supporting the development and functioning of services within the ecosystem.

The vision is to create a global, high-growth med tech company, developing a range of solutions that optimise the capture reporting and audit of medical emergency data

Year Established

2015

Impact

Reached the top 6 of the 2015 Converge Challenge competition for university spin-outs in Scotland (out of 186 applicants), and reached the top 10 of the Scottish Edge Higgs competition for technology (out of 165 eligible companies)

Presentation given on the PAWS project followed by discussion and questions.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2015

Description

'E=mc^2' event.

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

Regional

Primary Audience

Public/other audiences

Results and Impact

Hosting the live E=mc^2 event as part of the University of Aberdeen's Word Festival 2010.

From the Festival brochure "Almost everyone's heard of the formula E=mc2, but what does it actually mean, and why is it so important? This exciting activity-inspired by the E=mc2 book event in our main Festival programme-will shed some light on Einstein's most famous equation.Try to beat the grown-ups!"

Presentation describing the paper A Hybrid Map-matching Algorithm for Real Time Passenger Information Systems via Mobile Phones and Crowd-Sourcing at the IEEE Position Location and Navigation Conference

Presentation at IEEE/ION Position Location and Navigation Systems Conference

Not aware of any specific impacts from this presentation.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2012

Description

A Participatory Approach to Assessing Rural Accessibility Needs

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Type Of Presentation

paper presentation

Geographic Reach

International

Primary Audience

Professional Practitioners

Results and Impact

Talk by Robert Craig at TRANSED 2012 in New Delhi, followed by questions and discussion.

Talk given by R. Craig at Universities' Transport Study Group on research to exploring how people living in rural locations could help to identify, capture and communicate their own accessibility requirements is presented. The discussion centres on the work of a small group of people drawn from settlements in rural Aberdeenshire, Scotland. That group are working in a participatory way to devise and trial an approach for building a richer understanding of the accessibility requirements of people living in and around their own settlements.

Paper presentation at the 13th World Conference on Transport Research, leading to questions and discussion afterwards..

None to report

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2013

Description

A user-centric passenger information system for rural areas

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

National

Primary Audience

Professional Practitioners

Results and Impact

Prof John Nelson, dot.rural Co-Director spoke about the Informed Rural Passenger dot.rural project at the ITS UK Public Transport Interest Group joint meeting with Intellect. The talk was part of the solutions section of the meeting which had the overall title Cracking the Problem - Passenger Information in Transport.

Xiwu Han gave a presentation at Queen's University Belfast about the x project. There were questions and discussions afterwards.

None yet known

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2015

Description

Analysis and development of a prototype digital platform for Flexible Integrated Transport Systems in rural areas: A study of Scotland

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Type Of Presentation

paper presentation

Geographic Reach

National

Primary Audience

Professional Practitioners

Results and Impact

Presentation increased awareness of the dot,rural Digital Economy Hub. Presentation concerning policy developments in Scotland are moving towards integrated transport services, which are tailored to individual needs (for example, see Audit Scotland report on Transport for Health and Social Care). This could be achieved by integrating different transport services (e.g., education, patient services, demand responsive community transport services, shared taxis, etc.) and introducing more flexibility in the system.

None to report

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2013

Description

Animal Behaviour Zone: I'm a Scientist Get Me Out of Here

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

National

Primary Audience

Schools

Results and Impact

Dr Kapila Ponnamperuma, who worked on dot.rural's Blogging Birds project, was one of five researchers selected to participate in the online engagement "I'm a Scientist Get Me Out of Here" Animal Behaviour Zone . This involved live chats and answering questions from school children around the country.

15-20 people were informed about Internet of Things technologies and their potential privacy implications

None yet known

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2012,2014

Description

BT Digital Scotland Inverurie

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

Regional

Primary Audience

Public/other audiences

Results and Impact

15-20 people were informed about Internet of Things technologies and their potential privacy implications

None yet known

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2014

Description

BeeInvolved BeeWatch as part of British Science Week Aberdeen

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

Regional

Primary Audience

Public/other audiences

Results and Impact

Participation in an open day or visit at my research institute. A day long event run with Bumblebee Conservation Trust (BBCT) where members of the public could learn how to identify bumblebees, find out how bumblebee friendly their garden and take part in a BeeWalk

As well as an excellent public engagement day saw an increase in number of bumblebee photos submitted from the North East of Scotland. Plus data generated during the day contributed to the research

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2012

Description

BeeInvolved in BeeWatch at University of Aberdeen May festival

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

Regional

Primary Audience

Public/other audiences

Results and Impact

Public engagement event for families to learn all about bumblebees and to try BeeWatch online at the University of Aberdeen May festival.Reached an audience that were unfamilar with computer technologies and their potential. Even got an eldery lady using a computer for the first time in her life

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2013

Description

BeeWatch Talk to Kincardine o'Neil SWRI

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

Local

Primary Audience

Public/other audiences

Results and Impact

Greater awareness of what bumblebees you can find in your garden

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2015

Description

BeeWatch demo

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

International

Primary Audience

Professional Practitioners

Results and Impact

to stimulate thinking with a talk followed by discussion

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2014

Description

BeeWatch talk Cults Hillwalking Club

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

Local

Primary Audience

Public/other audiences

Results and Impact

TO share information and talk followed by discussion

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2013

Description

BeeWatch talk Scottish Wildlife Trust

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

Local

Primary Audience

Public/other audiences

Results and Impact

to share information with a talk and discussions

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2013

Description

BeeWatch talk at the James Hutton Institute for Aberdeen Entomological Club

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

Local

Primary Audience

Professional Practitioners

Results and Impact

to stimulate thinking and talk followed by discussion

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2013

Description

BeeWatch talk to Scottish Countryside Rangers Association

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

Local

Primary Audience

Public/other audiences

Results and Impact

How to participate in BeeWatch and the value of NLG feedback in citizen science schemes

Blogging birds: Lives of red kites told by computer. Article published in University World News

Form Of Engagement Activity

A magazine, newsletter or online publication

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

International

Primary Audience

Media (as a channel to the public)

Results and Impact

to share information and press coverage

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2013

Description

Body & Space reading group

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

Local

Primary Audience

Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)

Results and Impact

regular meetings sparking profound discussions

regional interest, with enquiries from public to attend meetings

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2013

Description

Borders Bus Stop Tour 1 - Galashiels

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

Regional

Primary Audience

Public/other audiences

Results and Impact

Members of the Informed Rural Passenger project spent time at the Galashiels bus station, raising awareness of the GetThereBus app and the research lifecycle conducted as part of the project.

Raised awareness of the Digital Economy theme, dot.rural, and researchers working with the public. The activity also led to an increase in the number of participants using the GetThereBus app developed by the Informed Rural Passenger Project.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2013

Description

Borders Bus Stop Tour 1 - Hawick

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

Regional

Primary Audience

Public/other audiences

Results and Impact

Members of the Informed Rural Passenger project spent time at the Hawick Mart Street bus stop, raising awareness of the GetThereBus app and the research lifecycle conducted as part of the project.

Raised awareness of the Digital Economy theme, dot.rural, and researchers working with the public. The activity also led to an increase in the number of participants using the GetThereBus app developed by the Informed Rural Passenger Project.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2013

Description

Borders Bus Stop Tour 1 - Peebles

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

Regional

Primary Audience

Public/other audiences

Results and Impact

Members of the Informed Rural Passenger project spent time at the Peebles High Street bus stop, raising awareness of the GetThereBus app and the research lifecycle conducted as part of the project.

Raised awareness of the Digital Economy theme, dot.rural, and researchers working with the public. The activity also led to an increase in the number of participants using the GetThereBus app developed by the Informed Rural Passenger Project.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2013

Description

Borders Bus Stop Tour 1 - Selkirk

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

Regional

Primary Audience

Public/other audiences

Results and Impact

Members of the Informed Rural Passenger project spent time at the Selkirk Market Place bus stop, raising awareness of the GetThereBus app and the research lifecycle conducted as part of the project.

Raised awareness of the Digital Economy theme, dot.rural, and researchers working with the public. The activity also led to an increase in the number of participants using the GetThereBus app developed by the Informed Rural Passenger Project.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2013

Description

Borders Bus Stop Tour 2 - Galashiels

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

Regional

Primary Audience

Public/other audiences

Results and Impact

Members of the Informed Rural Passenger project spent time at the Galashiels bus station, raising awareness of the GetThereBus app and the research lifecycle conducted as part of the project.

Raised awareness of the Digital Economy theme, dot.rural, and researchers working with the public. The activity also led to an increase in the number of participants using the GetThereBus app developed by the Informed Rural Passenger Project.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2013

Description

Borders Bus Stop Tour 2 - Hawick

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

Regional

Primary Audience

Public/other audiences

Results and Impact

Members of the Informed Rural Passenger project spent time at the Hawick Mart Street bus stop, raising awareness of the GetThereBus app and the research lifecycle conducted as part of the project.

Raised awareness of the Digital Economy theme, dot.rural, and researchers working with the public. The activity also led to an increase in the number of participants using the GetThereBus app developed by the Informed Rural Passenger Project.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2013

Description

Borders Bus Stop Tour 2 - Peebles

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

Regional

Primary Audience

Public/other audiences

Results and Impact

Members of the Informed Rural Passenger project spent time at the Peebles High Street bus stop, raising awareness of the GetThereBus app and the research lifecycle conducted as part of the project.

Raised awareness of the Digital Economy theme, dot.rural, and researchers working with the public. The activity also led to an increase in the number of participants using the GetThereBus app developed by the Informed Rural Passenger Project.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2013

Description

Borders Bus Stop Tour 2 - Selkirk

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

Regional

Primary Audience

Public/other audiences

Results and Impact

Members of the Informed Rural Passenger project spent time at the Selkirk Market Place bus stop, raising awareness of the GetThereBus app and the research lifecycle conducted as part of the project.

Raised awareness of the Digital Economy theme, dot.rural, and researchers working with the public. The activity also led to an increase in the number of participants using the GetThereBus app developed by the Informed Rural Passenger Project.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2013

Description

Briefing with MD of First Aberdeen, November 2009

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

National

Primary Audience

Industry/Business

Results and Impact

A meeting to brief the MD and Commercial Director of First Aberdeen on plans collaborative DE projects.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2009

Description

British Ecological Society Ghent Belgium

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

International

Primary Audience

Other audiences

Results and Impact

Talk at BES conference

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2018

Description

British Science Festival - Poster Presentation

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

Yes

Geographic Reach

National

Primary Audience

Schools

Results and Impact

Poster about rural digital research on display throughout the British Science Festival

N/A

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2012

Description

British Science Festival - Secondary School Programme

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

Yes

Geographic Reach

National

Primary Audience

Public/other audiences

Results and Impact

Advertised to conduct school talks related to research

N/A

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2012

Description

British Science Festival 2010

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

National

Primary Audience

Public/other audiences

Results and Impact

Very interesting experience, discussion with other participants.

n/a

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2010

Description

British Science Festival 2012 Poster presentation

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

Local

Primary Audience

Public/other audiences

Results and Impact

Members of the public were introduced to the early stages of my project

N/A

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2012

Description

British Science Festival: Strictly Engineering

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

National

Primary Audience

Public/other audiences

Results and Impact

Attendees from different background and ages came to know about Engineering research

Attendees became aware of the dot.rural initiative and showed interest

Cafe Sci style talk organised as part of the dot.rural Cafe Connect 2011 series. Talk discussed both the IRP and FITS projects, along with a discussion of their applicability for island communities.

24 people attended, including Donnie Morrison (Director of Co-Chomunn na Pairc, the Pairc Community Co-operative and HIE employee), Helen (Community Development Officer) and Malcolm Burr (Chief Executive of the Western Isles Council).

Raised awareness of the Digital Economy theme, dot.rural, and researchers working with the public.

Cafe Sci style talk, part of the Cafe Connect series, covering the complete evolution of the Internet as we currently know it; the difference between the internet and the Internet; and what the online future promises, Talk included examples from dot.rural's SIRA, ASSURE and DART projects.

Cafe Sci style talk, part of the Cafe Connect series, delivered by Dr Alasdair Mort, dot.rural Research Fellow. The talk covered research in dot.rural's MIME and TOPS projects. Topics included the current state of telehealth, telecare and telemedicine, with the possible reduction in face-to-face personal and social interaction.

Cafe Sci style talk, as part of the Cafe Connect talk, given by Sarah Skerrat, a dot.rural Associate Investigator from Scottish Agricultural College (now Scotland's Rural University College). The talk introduced the concept of 'resilience' (the "development and engagement of community resources by community members, through strategic means") and the role of rural broadband within it.

None yet known

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2011

Description

Cafe Connect talk: The Power of Social Media: Transformational tweeting or devaluation of democracy?

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

Local

Primary Audience

Public/other audiences

Results and Impact

Cafe Sci style talk, part of the Cafe Connect series, by Dr Elizabeth Tait at the Craigmonie Centre, Drumnadrochit.

None yet known

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2011

Description

Cafe Scientifique in the Shire - Can Technology be Persuasive?

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

Regional

Primary Audience

Public/other audiences

Results and Impact

Cafe Scientifique style talk given by Hien Nguyen (dot.rural Research Fellow) on what consumers can do in order to retain freedom of choice online.

None to date

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2011

Description

Caitlin Cottrill a Guest on Talking Science, Shmu FM

Form Of Engagement Activity

A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

Regional

Primary Audience

Media (as a channel to the public)

Results and Impact

Dr Caitlin Cottrill was interviewed on her work on Social Media and Transport.

None known to date

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2014

Description

Call for help to map bumblebee population. Press Article published in Farmers Guardian

Form Of Engagement Activity

A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

National

Primary Audience

Media (as a channel to the public)

Results and Impact

Press Coverage

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2012

Description

Camera traps for looking at wildlife

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

Local

Primary Audience

Schools

Results and Impact

Presentation to school children at Banchory Primary School, Aberdeenshire, 21 June 2012

none noted

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2012

Description

Camvista System deployed at Highland Wildlife Park

Form Of Engagement Activity

A magazine, newsletter or online publication

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

International

Primary Audience

Public/other audiences

Results and Impact

A system operated by Camvista was deployed at Highland Wildlife Park to monitor polar bears.

The deployment was publicized to the general public by the press: The Scotsman on 30th June 2014 ("Highland Wildlife Park installs polar bear webcam"); STV News on 5th May 2014 (at 11:26); The Press and Journal on 5th May 2014 ("Polar bears at Highland Wildlife Park").

Fiona Heesen, a dot.rural PhD student, was one of five researchers selected to participate in the online engagement "I'm a Scientist Get Me Out of Here" Cerium Zone in March 2014. This involved live chats and answering questions from school children around the country. The zone had over 19,000 page views.

There were 475 page views of the dot.rural RCUK Digital Economy Research involved. The full evaluation can be found at http://about.imascientist.org.uk/files/2014/04/Cerium-Report.pdf.